Appeal No. 1997-0899
Application No. 08/127,268
this step to be performed. Mabey then describes that the
receiving stations finding their address in the control
information are maintained in the high power state by sample
and hold device 50 [id., lines 18-20]. Thus, if the secondary
receiver detects its address in the control data, the receiver
is maintained in a high power state. If the secondary
receiver does not detect its address in the control data, OR-
gate 56 and switch 58 will power down the receiver at the end
of the control period determined by counter 60. In our view,
this is the same sequence of steps recited in independent
claim 1 starting with the identifying step.
Since appellants’ only argument with respect to
representative, independent claim 1 is that the claimed
maintaining step is not taught by Mabey, and since we find
this argument to be without merit, we sustain the rejection of
claims 1, 7-9, 14 and 15 based on the collective teachings of
Mabey and Fujiwara.
With respect to the claims of Group II as represented
by claim 2, appellants simply argue that “[n]either Mabey nor
Fujiwara, alone or in combination, disclose or suggest the
above limitations, and the 6/27/95 Office Action is devoid of
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